Company visits

Friday June 21 from 16:00 — 17:30location: registration desk

The Dutch Association for Industrial Relations has organized company visit, one to the personnel department of the Municipality of Amsterdam and one to the ING Bank. On site, a personnel director and a workers representative will introduce company labour relations. The visits offers an unique view into the practice of daily labour relations, with wide opportunities for discussion. ILERA-participants can take part in one of these two excursions, however early registration is necessary:

S1.16 - Solidarity

Saturday June 22 from 14:00 — 15:30location: room F002

Does diversity endanger social solidarity?
Co-ordinator: Paul de Beer (AIAS, University of Amsterdam)

It is often suggested that increasing diversity of groups and communities results in a loss of social solidarity. Ethnically diverse neighbourhoods would be characterized by less social cohesion and less social capital than homogeneous neighbourhoods; the extent of ethnic, linguistic or religious heterogeneity of a country would be negatively related to the support for or the provision of public goods and be positively related to political instability and civil war; increasing diversity of the labour force with respect to gender, age, educational level, ethnicity or employment contracts would result in a loss of organizing power and lower density rates of trade unions. This symposium aims to take stock of the empirical evidence that diversity and solidarity are indeed incompatible. The results of empirical studies of the relationship between diversity and heterogeneity of a group or community on the one hand and various interpretations of social solidarity on the other hand are presented and discussed. Some of these studies are part of the research programme ‘Solidarity in the 21st Century’ of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies of the University of Amsterdam.

Programme

14h00 Ferry Koster (Erasmus University Rotterdam & AIAS, University of Amsterdam): Solidarity and the intergenerational conflict. The role of stereotypes 14h20 Hans van Dijk (University of Tilburg): On the consequences of diversity in work groups: Group processes and outcomes14h40 Claartje Thijs (College voor de Rechten van de Mens/Board for Human Rights): The impact of diversity at work on ethnic preferences15h00 Paul de Beer (AIAS, University of Amsterdam): Solidarity in an ethnically diverse group